Fairhaven’s football game Friday night has been canceled

The Fairhaven High football team will have to wait an extra week to kick off the 2012 season. The Blue Devils learned Wednesday that their Week 1 opponent — Cape Cod Tech — didn’t have enough players to field a team for Friday night’s game at Fairhaven.

“I spoke with their AD. He said, ‘we’ll forfeit if we have to,’ said Fairhaven athletic director Scott Francis, who wasn’t sure whether or not the Blue Devils would be awarded a win. “I don’t have that answer yet. I need to call the MIAA.

“They canceled on us for a lack of players. They’re in a touch situation. They have under 24 players on the roster and that’s everybody. Some of them started late and seven of them can’t play because they don’t have enough practice in.”

The improved Blue Devils, who are considered a contender in the South Coast Conference this fall, will officially open the regular season at home Friday, Sept. 14 against Dighton-Rehoboth at 7.

“I was hoping to get a game under our belts, but unfortunately that’s not the case,” said Fairhaven head coach Rudy Bulgar, whose team has been preparing for Cape Cod Tech since last week and will now switch gears to prepping for D-R. “We were focusing on Cape Cod and we were finalizing touchups today and then I got the call at about 3:30-4 o’clock. The good thing is it will give us the opportunity to get out there and scout them a game and see them live.”

Last season Fairhaven fell behind early and never recovered in a 41-6 loss to the Falcons. Bulgar knows his team will be up for a rematch.

“With us taking it one game at a time, (the D-R game) gets here a little sooner than expected,” he said. “We’ll have a couple of days advantage for practice to prepare for them.”

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